Review of Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (ed. Priestley and Zali)

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Jessica Priestley, Vasiliki Zali (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond. Brill’s companions to classical reception, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. xvi, 440. ISBN 9789004272293. $194.00. Reviewed by Lorenzo Miletti, University of Naples Federico II (lorenzo.miletti@unina.it).

This companion is a generous and extremely welcome work which both widens and enriches the debate on Herodotus’ reception, a theme that has provoked wide interest in recent decades, after a long period in which scholarship consisted of a sparse list of contributions, the most famous being some essays by Arnaldo Momigliano

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There is much here of potential interest for ancient Judaism, not least the chapter on Josephus's use of Herodotus.

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